July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... for the environmental movement. Jeff Bezos has announced his intention to realise Gerard K O’Neill’s vision of large space settlements located at Lagrange Point L5. This quest for the ‘meaning’ of spaceflight reached a peak with the famous Earthrise...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... The High Frontier, Morrow, New York, 1976; Johnson, RD., Holbrow, c., ed.: Space Settlements: A Design Study, NASA SP-413, 1977, available online at: http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/75SummerStudy/Table_of_Contents1.html. 3 See http://www.gouvernement...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
... Shackleton will be advantageous to the mission because it is another location of great interest to the lunar, science and space settlement communities The Moon in recent times has become a very desirable target of interest for many countries around...
20 October 2016
Asgardia: The New Space Nation
...2 The news is shocking in that it proposes a settlement on man-made space craft rather than natural space bodies like planets or asteroids. It also seeks a nation in outer space. Similar claims on outer space settlements have been made for quite some...
30 March 2021
The Value of Science in Space Exploration
... science research. Individual chapters cover rationales for space exploration, the intrinsic value of knowledge and aspects such as space resource exploitation, space settlement and planetary protection. The volume concludes with references, an index...
23 September 2024
A City on Mars
...stagnation of the sector. For example, they write: “After a few years of researching space settlements, we began in secret to refer to ourselves as the “space bastards” because we found we were more pessimistic” than almost everyone else in the field...
